Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Respondents waive service. Taken up for disposal.

2. The Petitioners, nineteen in number, challenge the Award passed by the Industrial Court, Pune dismissing their Complaint (ULP) No. 177 of 2005.

3. The Respondent No.1 is a local authority constituted for the Pimpri Chinchwad area, under the provisions of Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949. The Respondent No.2 is the Municipal Commissioner. Respondent No.3 is the Medical Officer of Health in the services of the Municipal Corporation. The Respondent – Corporation has a public hospital known as Talera Hospital at Chinchwad. The Petitioners were initially working on Class IV post in Talera Hospital, through a contractor M.P. Enterprises. The contract with M.P. Enterprises came to an end by September 2004 and thereafter, the Petitioners continued to work for seven months with the Respondents, and apprehending their discontinuance, they filed a complaint (ULP) No. 177 of 2005.

4. The complaint was filed seeking permanency in services of the Respondent – Corporation and for parity in wages with other Class IV employees. In the complaint, it was contended as follows : the provis